The Business of Art Therapy: Exploring Art Therapists’ Professional Sustainability in Canada Through Extrinsic Factors and Systems of Influence (Le marché de l’art-thérapie : exploration de la durabilité professionnelle des art-thérapeutes au Canada au travers des facteurs extrinsèques et des systèmes d’influence)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This integrative literature review explores Canadian art therapists’ difficulties of finding and maintaining sustainable employment. When conceiving of what contributes to maintaining sustainable employment, the intersection of art therapist, art therapy culture, and business skills were considered. The goal of this literature review was to understand potential challenges that new and current art therapists may find by collating literature into main key categories that explore extrinsic systems of influence. In this study, extrinsic systems of influence are described as influences outside of an art therapist that contribute to a Canadian art therapist’s experiences of achieving sustainable employment. The literature was categorized into the following extrinsic experiences: gender, social action, activism, advocacy, feminism, psychology of identity and brand, and socialized health care. Two main conceptual recommendations were generated from the review. The first is that using a lens of the psychology of identity and brand can create a unified and inclusive art therapy identity in Canada. This lens can contribute to art therapists more concisely communicating a message of unique values, identity, and benefits. The second finding is that establishing provincial psychotherapy/counseling therapist regulatory colleges will bring recognition and inclusion in healthcare funding in the future. The implication of these two recommendations for future study is to evaluate and assess art therapists’ value offering messaging and employment in mental health care in Canada.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".